Improvement in fur-set boxes



BENJAMIN FQPORTER.

Improvement in Fur Set Boxes.

N0, 120,897, Patented Nov. 14,1871..

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

BENJAMIN F. PORTER, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGN OR TO GEORGE T. GARRISON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FUR-SET BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,897, dated November 14, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of the city of Nashua, county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Im- ].irovement in the Manufacture of Paper or Pasteboard Fur-Set Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description oi' the same, reference being,` had to the aecompanying drawin g, in whichy Figure l represents a view of such box -made according' to my invention.

I The first part of my invention relates to the shape of the bottom of afur-set box; and con sists in inolining inward the two sides of the box near the bottom so as to form the octagonal bottom a b o, which secures the compartment L, suitable for a mnff, without a false bottom. The second part of my invention relates to the formation of the compartment U for a collar or boa; and consists in attaching to the inner sides of the box, as h h, the two hinged pieces or shelves S S, overlapping each other, which are supported in a horizontal position by tapes t t connecting the said pieces with the sides of the box, the

said tapes folding behind the movable pieces witnesses: BENJAMIN E. PORTER.

HENRY B. ATEERTON, SUMNER D. MARLAN. (38) v 

